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First of all, want to thank all of you for being here today. Thank my Ranking Member carden and his staff and the flexibility they have. Its kind of interesting, ben cardin and i were maybe three of the last remaining of the class of what was yeah. 1987. Were we have lamar smith and a couple more. Anyway, its funny. Were on opposite sides and a lieutenant of issues that were always together in friendship as well as in infrastructure. As this weeks infrastructure week, its a great opportunity for us to highlight the critical needs we have in this country. Tomorrow the full committee will have the chance to question secretary chow. The Epw Committee led the charge to pass the fast act, the highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. This was the largest one since 1998. Nobody believed that wed get it done. Others thought that wed only get an 18month bill that senat ....
Transportation secretary elaine chao outlined the trump administrations infrastructure plan while appearing last week before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This was her first time testifying before Congress Since being confirmed in january. The hearing is just under two hours. I called this hearing to order and today we are welcoming the secretary of transportation, the honorable elaine chao to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works on our nations infrastructure needs. Madam secretary, welcome to the committee. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has always taken the l ....
Transportation secretary elaine chao outlined the trump administrations infrastructure plan while appearing last week before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This was her first time testifying before Congress Since being confirmed in january. The hearing is just under two hours. I called this hearing to order and today we are welcoming the secretary of transportation, the honorable elaine chao to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works on our nations infrastructure needs. Madam secretary, welcome to the committee. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has always taken the l ....
The meeting comes to order. First of all, we want to thank all of you for being here today and thank my friend Ranking Member cardon and his staff for the flexibility with the scheduling todays hearing. Its kind of interesting because ben cardon and i were are maybe three of the last remaining of the class of what was that . Yeah, 1987 chlt after the issue was behind us. This is beginning to be different. Were always together in friendship and in infrastructure. As this weeks infrastructure week, its good to highlight the critical needs we have in the country. Tomorrow the full committee will have the chance to question secretary chao and the administrations priorities and its my hope this hearing will be a productive lead into her visit. They led the pass to pass the fast act, the six reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. This is the largest one since 1998. Nobody believed that we would get it done and others thought ....
By now weve seen the reports in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our system which carries over 400,000 cars a day. With that volume of traffic, its amazing there wasnt any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the implementation of the fast act of state and local partners. Its the first long term surface transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill provides very much needed certainty and funding so that our nonfederal partners can make smart longterm investments. The fact that fast act is a forward looking law that puts an emphasis on projec ....